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Bangladesh Right To Information Survey 2019

World Bank Group - 2020

The year 2019 marks the tenth year of the Right to Information (RTI) act enactment in Bangladesh. The Government of Bangladesh (GoB) has made good progress in implementing the RTI Act 2009 in the past decade. The RTI survey was conducted between January and March of 2019. The survey results...

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Attacking Extreme Poverty. Learning from the Experience of the International Movement ATD Fourth World.

Woden, Q. - World Bank Group - 2001

This report consists of a collection of essays on extreme poverty. The first part of the report deals with what it means to live in extreme poverty, how to reach the very poor, through programs, and interventions, and how to make private, and public institutions more responsive to their...

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Slavery and human trafficking international law and the role of the World Bank

Solla, Perez; Fernanda, Maria - World Bank Group - 2009

This paper reviews the international legal framework applicable to the World Bank and member states on contemporary forms of slavery, in particular, trafficking. The Palermo trafficking protocol is specially analyzed. Moreover, the paper refers to the preventive framework constituted by human...

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Human trafficking, modern day slavery, and economic exploitation

Koettl, Johannes - World Bank Group - 2009

Human trafficking, as it is defined by international law, subsumes all forms of nonconsensual exploitation. That is, whenever people are forced or lured into exploitation no matter if movement of victims is involved it is considered human trafficking. There is, though, a large overlap with...

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Regional overview of social protection for non-citizens in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Olivier, Marius - World Bank Group - 2009

This report gives an overview of the social security status of non-citizens in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), describes measures and efforts to support labor mobility through enhanced social security protection of non-citizens in SADC, and makes recommendations as to how to...

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Balancing Workers' Protection and Labor Market Flexibility in China

World Bank Group - 2021

Across the world, governments use minimum wages, employment protection legislation, and other labor regulations that define the legal boundaries of employment to manage potential labor market imperfections. These imperfections include information asymmetry, uneven market power between employers...

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Climate Risk Country Profile : China

World Bank Group - 2021

-resilient future, helping them to be better prepared to adapt to current and future climate impacts. The People's Republic of China is … coastline. As of 2018 China contained six cities with populations over 10 million …

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At the Front Line : Reflections on the Bank's Work with China over Forty Years, 1980-2020

World Bank Group - 2021

evidence-based advice to China, but China was always in the driver's seat in structuring the relationship and in determining … Conference, at Dalian, then with the China 2020 and China 2030 reports, and the subsequent series of flagships produced jointly … local level through demonstration projects and reform pilots that China studied, adapted, and later scaled. Finally, an …

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China : 40-Year Experience in Renewable Energy Development; Policies, Achievements, and Lessons Learned

World Bank Group - 2021

China made impressive progress in developing renewable energy to provide access to clean energy and electricity to its … pollution and mitigating the impact of climate change. Through that journey, China has accumulated a considerable amount of …

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Listing State-Owned Enterprises in Emerging and Developing Economies : Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Success and Failure

World Bank Group - 2021

In this report, the authors investigate state-owned enterprise (SOE) listings as a solution to promote local capital markets development. Thus, SOE listings can offer governments an enormous opportunity to kick-start the development of their local capital markets while achieving other divestment...

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